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sticks and stones
Idiom(s): sticks and stones
Theme: ENMITY
elements of harm [directed at someone]. (Part of a rhyme, "Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Fixed order.) • I have had enough of your sticks and stones. I have enough trouble without your adding to it. • After the opposing candidate had used sticks and stones for a month, suddenly there were kind words heard.
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Physical attacks may harm me, but cruel words will not.
Out in the sticks
(UK) If someone lives out in the sticks, they live out in the country, a long way from any metropolitan area.
Up sticks
(UK) If you up sticks, you leave somewhere, usually permanently and without warning- he upped sticks and went to work abroad.
be blithe hockey sticks
To act or allege in an agog but artful or acid way, abnormally back one is of a aerial amusing class. Lady Cartwright is consistently blithe hockey sticks, so I don't assurance a chat she says.I don't accept the backbone to be about bodies who are blithe hockey sticks all the time.Learn more: hockey, jolly, stickLearn more:
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